I’ve been working with Microsoft BI tools for 28 years now and for all that time Microsoft has been consistent in its belief ...

Replace broken brackets in Excel with clear, flexible Power Query rules that handle real-world data effortlessly.

Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

One of the many interesting things that caught my eye in the new SSAS Tabular Performance Tuning white paper is actually about new functionality in the SSAS 2012 Multidimensional and nothing to do ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Agent workflows make transport a first-order ...

New laptops with ARM processors (such as some Surface models) run older software through an emulation layer, which can cause Power Query to crash. Installing the native ARM64 version of Office allows ...

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...

DuckDB is an amazing tool with deep integration with Python and R, but sometimes you just need data in Excel. xlDuckDb allows DuckDB SQL to be run within Excel. Query results are returned as regular ...

Microsoft Excel for Windows is getting a streamlined upgrade for anyone working with external data. If you regularly use Power Query, there’s a brand-new “Get Data” experience rolling out that aims to ...